Comments on: Strong Reasons Why you should not install SezWho Plugin

By: lankapo

lankapo — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:57:30 +0000

I agree since using Sezwho plugin in my wordpress, my site load so turtle hehe

so I unplug it

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:13:26 +0000

Yes i agree Extern plugins slow down the speed of the blog !!

By: Talen

Talen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:04:24 +0000

If that were true then MyBloglog, Blog Catalog, and Technorati would cause problems…not to mention Digg and Stumbleupon.

Personally I don’t care for sezwho at all but Entrecard has been a very useful resource for networking with other blogs.

By: R MAK

R MAK — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:44:24 +0000

@Talen I agree with you, we both don’t have access to alexa algorithm, just our own experiences and experiences of our friends….

There is lots of information in relation to EntreCard and SezWho. Most SEO guru’s advise against them. It’s against Google’s guide lines for webmasters too..(well in a way)

So why take risk?

By: Talen

Talen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:17:22 +0000

Your blog may have taken a dip but you can’t say for certain that it was because Entrecard.

I use Entrecard as well and when Alexa changed algorithms my rank got slightly better and has been doing slightly better every update. I don’t know what metric they are using now but some blogs have gone down and some up.

By: R MAK

R MAK — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:16:09 +0000

Hi, Jitendra,

Nice to have you on my blog. The whole concept of giving incentives for commenting on people’s blog is absurd. This is waste of internet.

You are trying to erode the line between publishers and readers.

That being said. Google does not penalize SezWho but in a way it does by ignoring circular links. some times the crawler assume that it’s link farm as a closed group of people commenting on each other’s blog creating back links. such links are worth nothing.

Also the point of discussion is not Google’s view of SezWho. Its the bug fixing your team has to do. It slows down sites and your company has to come up with a solution. and Fast…

I do understand your Marketing teams concerns about Positive Public Relation Strategy, but there is nothing you can do about bad code but fix it. You are not microsoft for god sake…

I hope you don’t take this article negatively and take it as a positive criticism.

By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:14:51 +0000

To address the issue with the slowness of the blogs, we are adding the option to have local CSS and JS for your sites. This will make sure that site are not dependent on SezWho for loading time. On Blogger, we have had a few issues with the layout and to address it we are implementing a template based solution for it which should be available soon. This will enable full customization.

Also please feel free to send us emails at support@sezwho.com for any slowdowns etc. and we will be happy to investigate. Typically we take about 30ms to load the CSS and about 50ms for the js. The blogger users see the slowdown as UI is shown dynamically, only after most of the page is loaded and depending on the number of widgets that might be slowed down. So this is really a perception issue…The template based approach will fix that problem as well.

By: Jitendra

Jitendra — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:02:30 +0000

R Mak,

Jitendra from SezWho here…

There should be no issues with Google related to SezWho..SezWho displays the connections between blogs based on comments and commentets on demand…It does not effect the crawling of the site and as such there should be no penalties associated with it.

Thanks,
Jitendra

By: R MAK

R MAK — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:54:43 +0000

Alexa information is my own experience… just have a look at the dip my blog took by clicking on Alexa widget.

Google’s one is from various SEO Guru’s who write on this subject. I will do a separate post on it on my Technology blog http://www.ixibo.com/

By: Dot Com Mogul

Dot Com Mogul — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:47:26 +0000

Can you tell me where you got the information about Google and Alexa?